The “public option” aspect of Obamacare—the provision that would likely result eventually in a socialized health care financing system—may be about to be abandoned. From the story:Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Barack Obama’s . . . . Continue Reading »
So I have to give a talk at the American Political Science Association in a few weeks on Strauss. Here are some tentative thoughts for your consideration. In his essay on Kurt Riezler in WHAT IS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY? Strauss writes “If we are permitted to say that historicism is the view . . . . Continue Reading »
So I know I promised that my last post on healthcare would be my final word but apparently I don’t have that kind of discipline. Over at Critical Condition , the healthcare blog at NRO, I have a few more pithy words on the subject. Still trying to construct an account of the public . . . . Continue Reading »
It turns out that Compassion and Choices—formerly the Hemlock Society—had a hand in creating the end of life “counseling” provision that caused such a ruckus in the Great Health Care Debate. I have noticed that C and C is trying to position itself as the Planned Parenthood . . . . Continue Reading »
My pal Dean Koontz’s long awaited Book 3 of his Frankenstein series, Dead and Alive, is out and selling like hotcakes. When we got our copy, Secondhand Smokette devoured it in one night. She can read almost as fast as Dean can write!In any event, I hadn’t read any of the books in . . . . Continue Reading »
For the last few weeks a battle has been brewing in the ethics committee of the Wisconsin Medical Society, with a motion filed to have it go neutral on legalizing assisted suicide. I am happy to report that effort failed by a 13-5 vote. Medical ethics maintained in Wisconsin. Patients . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently skewered an anonymous photojournalist for his condescending attitude toward soldiers he was assigned to cover. Allow me now to sing the praises of combat photographers David Guttenfelder, Joe Raedle, and Manpreet Romania by calling attention to this remarkable series of photographs . . . . Continue Reading »
Diogenes writes : A Vermont woman named Patricia Blair has suffered a tragedy: Her unborn twins were killed in an auto accident. Blair—who survived, obviously—thinks that the driver who caused the accident should be prosecuted for the death of her children. But you see the problem: If . . . . Continue Reading »
Bryan Caplan expresses his surprise at Geoffrey Miller: I’m impressed that after proclaiming himself “a secular humanist, an antiwar internationalist, an animal-rights environmentalist, a pro-gay feminist, a libertarian on most social, sexual, and cultural issues, and a registered . . . . Continue Reading »
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